Clarion 1961-11-21 Vol 38 No 06

Scrooge (Tuffy Bryant) turns to listen to Bob Crachitt (Al Penner)
during rehearsal for the Dec. 1, 2 Royal Players production of "Scrooge."
Study Grants
Still Availabl
Mr. Eugene Johnson, associate professor of art, is responsible for planning and executing the illumin-ated
backdrop for the Festival of Christmas. Mr. Johnson is assisted by Robert Nelson, art instructor.
Most of the actual construction and painting is done by members of the art classes.
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Players Portray 'Scrooge'
In Pre-Christmas Production
Cohn Convo
On Survival
Set Nov. 29
Victor Cohn, science editor of
the Minneapolis Star and Tribune,
at a Nov. 29 convocation will pre-sent
his concepts of "Survival in
the Nuclear Age."
Mr. Cohn wrote a series of ar-ticles
about the future which ap-peared
in about sixty American
newspapers this year. He is also
the author of a book, "1999 —
Our Hopeful Future" which was
the topic of his discussion when
he was with us on campus last
year.
Serving as president of the Na-tional
Association of Science Writ-ers
is one of Mr. Cohn's many dis-tinctions.
He has won many a-wards
for superior writing in the
field of science.
As a 1941 graduate of the Uni-versity
of Minnesota, Mr. Cahn
served as editor of the Minnesota
Daily in 1940-41.
The spirits of Christmas past,
present, and future aid in fashion-ing
a completely new character
for miserly Scrooge, portrayed by
Tuffy Bryant in the Royal Play-ers
presentation of Charles Dick-ens'
famous Christmas story,
Scrooge, to be presented Dec. 13,
14.
The play is being directed by
Inez Welch, Bethel alumna. Ac-companying
the play will be a pre-sentation
of group and solo read-ings
by the speech choir.
Tickets, $1.00 for adults and 50c
for students and children will go
on sale one to two weeks prior to
the performance which begins at
8 p.m. in the Hamline university
little theater.
Thanksgiving day the dining
hall will be closed for all meals.
Students planning to remain at
the college during the vacation
should register in the student
affairs office for meals which
will be prepared in various
homes, off campus.
The dining hall and dorms
will be open for the remainder
of the holidays.
Convo Features
Speech Winners
Four debate students who have
won awards for their superior de-bating
will participate in the Dec.
12 speech convocation.
Doug Huber and Ellen McNaugh-ten,
first and second place oral
interpretation winners in a debate
contest held Oct. 10 were awarded
the Dr. Martin Ericsson awards.
Winning the Dr. Alford Hansen
awards were Lynne Stapp, first,
and Cal Mortenson, second honor
winners in oratory on Oct. 11.
Muck Speaks
On Beatitudes
"What are the qualities of the
man who is a Christian?" is the
subject of a series of eight cur-rent
chapel talks given by Webster
Muck, dean of students.
Based on the beatitudes of Christ
in the Sermon on the Mount, the
talks will suggest what attitudes
and desires are to be considered
characteristic of those who are re-lated
to God in Christ Jesus. The
aim is not so much to draw a ver-bal
portrait of a normal Christian,
as to show out of what materials
a normal Christian life is built.
The series began with sessions
Nov. 14-16, and will continue Nov.
20-22, concluding after Thanksgiv-ing,
Nov. 27 and 28.
"Christ Eternal" is the theme of
the fifth annual presentation of
the Festival of Christmas.
Bethel to Hear
Sewell Strings
On Dec. 2 at 8:00 p.m. in the
fieldhouse the Fred Sewell string
quartet will provide a concert for
the students of Bethel.
Fred Sewell is the first violinist
and organizer of the quartet. Jane
LaBerge is the second violinist,
Daniel Barach is on the viola, with
Betty Anderson on the cello. The
quartet will be accompanied by
Arthur Freiwald.
The quartet will present a quar-tet
by Beethoven in four move-ments,
a Mozart Quintet and a
Brahm's quartet. Mr. Sewell is a
graduate of Curtis Institute of
Music in Philadelphia.
Application for the Danforth
scholarships must be made by Jan.
15, 1962, according to Eugene
Sprinkel, assistant dean of stu-dents.
For the eleventh year the Dan-forth
Foundation welcomes appli-cants
from the areas of natural
and biological sciences, the social
sciences, the humanities, and all
fields of specialization found in
the undergraduate college
Applications are taken from col-lege
senior students who are pre-paring
themselves for a career of
college teaching and are planning
to enter their first year at gra-duate
school in Sept., 1962. Select-ed
students must have "outstand-ing
academic ability, personality
congenial to the classroom, and
integrity and character, including
serious inquiry within the Chris-tian
tradition."
Recommendation by the faculty
is necessary for the scholarship.
Three productions will be given,
Friday and Saturday, Dec. 8 an4
9, at 8 p.m. and Sunday afternoon,
Dec. 10, at 3 p.m. in the field-house.
Featured in the program will be
the 160-voice festival chorus as
well as the college choir, the male
chorus, the women's choir, the or-chestra,
and the brass ensemble.
For the first time, the choral
groups, in addition to singing, will
be featured in choral speaking.
Sheldon Fardig is the coach for
the narration and voice choir.
The three-part program will
open with an antiphonal choral
effect. "Christ in the Beginning,"
"Christ in Time," and "Christ in
Eternity" compose the three sec-tions
of the program, which be-gins
with the traditional colored
candlelight processional through
the fieldhouse.
In addition to carols from other
countries and selections from "The
Messiah," th eprogram will include
several familiar carols such as
"Silent Night" and "0 Come, 0
Come, Emmanuel."
Now traditional, the illuminated
backdrop will be used. Eugene
Johnson and Robert Nelson of the
art department are in charge of
this background.
Directing the festival chorus or
the separate groups during the
evening will be Julius Whitinger,
chairman of the fine arts depart-ment,
Robert Berglund, Robert
Peterson, and C. Howard Smith.
Cal Mortensen and Francis Whee-ler
will narrate; Roberta Yaxley
and Janet Carroll will accompany
throughout the program.
There is no admission charge
for the Festival of Christmas, but
a free-will offering will be taken.
Bible Study
Groups Form
Theme of the Bible study is
"The Person of Christ," passages
have been selected that deal with
the character and personality of
Christ.
StudentsMayGo
To N.A.E. Meet
"Communism and the American
Heritage" is the issue that will
confront a National Association of
Evangelicals - sponsored Christian
Youth Leader's conference, Dec.
14-15, at the Sherman Hotel in
Chicago.
The conference features leaders
of the N.A.E. as well as Gunnalz
Hoglund of the Baptist General
Conference.
Any Bethel students interested
in attending may contact Steve
Peterson, senate president, for ad-ditional
information of the actual
program and travel plans.
Volume XXXVIII—No. 6 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Tuesday, November 21, 1961
Supporting cast includes narra-tor,
Evans Curry; Bob Cratchitt,
Al Penner; Fred, Ron Bergman;
Marley, Al Penner; ghost of
Christmas past, Donna Green;
ghost of Christmas present, Lynne
Stapp; ghost of Christmas yet to
come, Donna Green; Mr. Fezziwig,
Lee Hansen; Mrs. Fezziwig, Mary
Johnston; Dick, Dick Frederick-son;
Mrs. Cratchitt, Nancy Wall;
Tiny Tim, Steve Curtis; Boy, Earl
Peterson; Cratchitt children,
Sharon Honeywell, Judy Lindaman.
Last year the Royal Players pre-sented
the "Diary of Anne Frank"
and "Christ in the Concrete City."
Bryant, lead in Scrooge, held a role
in the latter.
Dec. 1 marks the beginning of
Bethel's Bible study groups. A-bout
eighty groups of nine or ten
people will be meeting in speci.
fied places throughout the cam-pus.
Bible study groups were formed
last year for the first time. The
purpose of the groups is threefold:
to stimulate personal Bible study,
to provide an opportunity for in-teraction-
With other students, and
—TO develop and expand a person's
circle of Christian friends. Says Sprinkel
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
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Letters to the Editor (con't.)
Editorials:
Barth Views Written Word as
Kennedy Urges Day of
Instrument of God's Revelation
Dear Editor:
As a transfer student I perhaps
speak as one from the outside, al-though
I feel quite at home.
Bethel stands as a Christian
college, a bulwark of "love, joy,
peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness, self-con-trol."
(p. 17, college catalog.)
That happened to these principles
in the last CLARION in regard to
each of the editorials on home-coming?
True, criticism is good,
as long as it is true and construc-tive!
It appears to me that each
piece of criticism probably stem-med
from either selfishness or per-sonal
ideas and misconstrued val-ues!
The phrase, "Off with Royal
heads" certainly is a mark of an
"ancient fertility cult." As to the
pomp, circumstance and female
smiles, what better suggestion has
"Weasel" for the finer things of
life ? Perhaps he needs to restudy
fine arts.
As to the Christian viewpoint,
true, a Christian college must basi-cally
be non-conforming, but non-conformity
for the sake of non-conformity
is foolishness! Tradi-tion
mixed with modesty can very
successfully serve to enrich its
surroundings. Or may I ask, are
we also to be ascetic minded? True,
if tradition should replace Christ
this would be wrong, but I am
certain that presently this is quite
absurd!
Congratulations, queen, attend-ants,
you all "reigned quite beau-.
tifully." I highly commend all
those who worked for the home-coming
weekend, a tremendous
job, well done!
Bruce T. Baker
Editor's note : Mr. Baker is
evidently confused on the dif-ference
between editorials and
letters to the editor. He directs
his criticism against letters re-ceived
by the editor. Only one
editorial appeared in the last is-sue
and it made no mention of
royalty.
Dear Editor:
The possibility of our govern-ment
resuming nuclear tests is
creating quite a stir across the
nation and I would like to add my
small voice to the growing cry
of opposition to nuclear testing.
The space of this letter does not
allow me to expand on the reason-ing
behind the views presented,
but I would like to outline them
for the Bethel student body and
trust they will discuss the impli-cations
of nuclear testing.
We have come to the point in
history where we have substituted
total annihilation for war. The
growth of potential nuclear de-struction
leaves no one outside our
discussion. We have said that all
war is morally wrong, yet have
rationalized some wars because
they were "just." Nuclear war is
no different, yet it would be ex-tremely
difficult when envisaging
the effects of nuclear war to call
it "just" in any sense of the term.
Can you imagine "justice" in the
picture of men creeping from their
shelters to live in a primitive bar-baric
state, or, at best, in a mili-tary
dictatorship. Nuclear warfare
is morally wrong.
Then why do we test, unless we
are going to use the weapons ? We
test to deter! We test to regain
our lead! Why ? So that we can
say that we can kill people ten
times better whereas before we
could only kill them nine times as
well?
In a recent article in the Sature-day
Review, Soviet scientists came
to the conclusion that nuclear test-ing
itself was an assault on man-kind.
The known and the unknown
effects of radiation on our bodies
and on future generations would
seem a great moral deterrent to
the resumption of nuclear tests.
We want an effective test ban
with controls and inspection. Will
resuming tests help us to attain
this goal? Nuclear testing does
not imply the delaying of war nor
the solution; in most cases, it
by Clarence B. Bass
No man in the twentieth cen-tury
has made as much impact
upon the theological world as has
Karl Barth. The genius behind neo-orthodoxy,
Barth has written in-cisively
about the problems of
theology, the most prominent of
which is his concept of the Scrip-tures.
His basic premise is that the
Scripture is not iself revelation,
but is a witness to revelation. The
Bible must never be identified with
revelation—to do so makes it a
"paper pope." It is not an infalli-ble
word of God, but a thoroughly
human book which may become
the Word of God when God speaks
through it. With all of its human
imperfections, it nevertheless is
the medium through which God
speaks to men.
The precise meaning of Barth's
"witness to revelation" is diffi-cult
to grasp if one continues to
insist that the very word of the
Scripture is the Word of God's
revelation. The word of the Scrip-ture
is but a record of the way in
probably enhances the chances for
war.
World opinion obviously hates
nuclear testing and the psychologi-cal
tension it brings. Are we go-ing
to let our spiritual and moral
heritage of reason and peace col-lapse
to gain some nebulous ad-vantage
in nuclear fission?
I hope not!
Larry S. Peterson
NOTE . . .
The student senate of the Bethel
college student association in ses-sion
Nov. 13, 1961, adopted the
following:
Resolved: That the United States
should refrain from atmospheric
and subterranian testing until such
a time as the immediate possibility
of nuclear warfare should neces-sitate
such testing.
The reasons for the adoption of
this resolution include:
1) the as yet unknown immed-iate
and future result from radio-active
fallout,
which God has revealed himself
to man. When man reads that re-cord,
and when the Spirit of God
illumines its meaning so that man
meets God in it, that which has
been only a record takes upon it-self
a revelatory nature. Through
it God meets man: man encount-ers
God.
An illustration which Barth uses
clarifies his position. I have, says
Barth, a record of the voice of the
Great Caruso. I play that record
and I listen to the voice of Caruso.
Am I listening to Caruso's voice?
No, I'm not hearing Caruso's voice
—I hear only a mechanical repro-duction
of that voice. However,
even though I do not have the
actual voice of Caruso, I may still
say that I am listening to Caruso's
voice, since this is the only means
I have of hearing what Caruso
really was.
Just so, when I refer to the
Bible as God's revelation, says
Barth, I do not mean that I am
receiving God's actual revelation,
but I have only the mechanical re-cording
of that revelation. To say
2) the balance of world opinion
seems to oppose such nuclear test-ing,
3) the resumption of such test-ing
does not imply the delaying of
any war, nor is it a reasonable
solution to any problems related to
the possibility of such a war.
Other letters to the editor
were received and not printed
for lack of space. These are
posted on the bulletin board out-side
the CLARION office.
Chairman Needed
The student senate is solicit-ing
a 1962 homecoming chair-man,
according to Steve Peter-son,
president. Interest in this
position may be expressed to
any senate member and further
action will be taken in the near
future.
that the Bible is revelation con-fuses
the reproduction element
found in the Bible. I "play the
record" when I read the Bible; I
hear the "voice" of God; but, I
must recognize that it is not the
voice of God, but only that which
can lead me to the voice of God
which I will find behind (beyond)
the words of the Bible.
Returning to his illustration,
Barth asserts that repeated use of
the record means that it has scrat-ches
on it that mars its fidelity.
When I play it, he says, in addi-tion
to the voice of Caruso, I also
hear the surface noises. These may
distract, but they do not nullify the
voice of Caruso. Just so, the Bible
has the "surface noises" of errors,
contradiction and myths, yet
through it I can still hear the
voice of God.
It is clear that Barth's view of
the Scripture differs radically from
that of evangelical theology. Barth
asserts an intangible revelation
which cannot be identified with the
precise meaning of words but is
a hazy, effervesent, undefinable
shadow hiding behind the words
of Scripture. The words of the
Scripture are our only means of
understanding revelation, and when
they are emptied of their meaning
the concept of revelation becomes
meaningless.
Drama Can
Challenge to
Deeper Life
Editor's note : These comments
on drama on a Christian campus
are taken from a paper by Bill
Carlson and are only excerpts.
Drama on a Christian campus
provides, in a stimulating exper-ience,
a wonderful means of ana-lyzing
the actions and problems of
human beings, evaluating the long-ings
of the inner soul, and under-standing
the purposes of the Chris-tian
life.
Plays not only reveal to us the
characteristics of our fellow citi-zens
but cause us to re-evaluate
our life in relationship to them.
A play or drama usually affects
our emotional life. It gives us an
opportunity to get away from the
thoughts of ourselves and causes
us to reflect and react on the
problems, needs, and cares of oth-ers.
It creates in us a desire to re-evaluate
the reason for our exist-ence
both as Christians and as hu-man
beings. Even if the viewer of
the drama does not react favorably
with the idea of the play he at
least has had the opportunity to
re-think his ideas and to challenge
his beliefs. Just as we get emo-tional
about the things of Christ,
so we should also become concern-ed
with our reactions to other peo-ple
and their ideas.
Dramas are important because
they open the Christian's eyes to
the world around and make him
realize that Christianity is not a
cliquish ideal but something that
is needed for the whole world.
Thanks, Giving, Prayer
The Thanksgiving holiday is again upon us, heralded by glittering
Christmas baubles.
During the Thanksgiving observance, we will repeatedly be advised
to display our gratitude for benefits to ourselves—possessions or cir-cumstances
which have accumulated or transpired with little effort on
our part. This is relatively easy.
However, more urgently, we must relate our advantages to the
needs of other people. Gratitude must be expressed in concrete action,
not merely platitudes.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in his proclamation of Thanks-giving,
1961, clearly outlined these ideas for the nation as a whole,
but his statements assume an added dimension when viewed with a
confirmed Christian commitment.
BPA.—"It is a good thing to Campaign. To all we can offer the
give thanks unto the Lord." It is sustenance of hope that we shall
right that we should be grateful not fail in our unceasing efforts
for the plenty amidst which we to make this a peaceful and pros-live:
the productivity of our farms, perous world for all mankind.
the output of our factories, the
skill of our artisans, and the in-
I urge all citizens to make this
genuity of our inventors. Thanksgiving not merely a holi-
But in the midst of our thanks- day from their labors, but rather
giving, let us not be unmindful of a day of contemplation. Let us ob-the
plight of those in many parts serve this day with reverence and
of the world to whom hunger is with prayer that will rekindle in
no stranger and the plight of those us the will and show us the way
millions more who live without the not only to preserve our blessings,
blessings of liberty and freedom. but also to extend them to the four
With some we are able to share corners of the earth. Let us by
our material abundance through our example, as well as by our
our Food-for-Peace Program and material aid, assist all peoples of
through our support of the Uni- all nations who are striving to
ted Nations Freedom-from-Hunger achieve a better life in freedom.
Letters to the Editor:
Students Comment .
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Young Peoples
Dr. R. Youngblood
Evening Service 7:15
ProBuCols 8:30
( Professional, Business, College)
Bus Leaves Bodien 9:40 a.m., 6:50 p.m.
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Sunday School — 9:45 a.m.
Morning Service — 11:00 a.m.
Evening Service — 7 :00 p.m.
"Probucols" meet at 8:30 p.m. Sunday
Bus Transportation Provided
J. Leonard Carroll, pastor Gordon Sundberg, Youth Dir.
S.S. 9:45 a.m. Services 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Youth Hour 5:30 p.m.
Where Bethel Students Serve
Elim Baptist Church
685 - 13th Avenue Northwest
Minneapolis
Sunday School-9:45 a.m.
Morning Service—I 1:00 a.m.
Evening Chapel-7:00 p.m.
College-Business Fellowship-8:30
Transportation Provided
Rev. Emmett V. Johnson, pastor
Rev. Frank Shindo, Ass't.
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Wednesday, 7 :00 p.m. Thanksgiving Worship Service
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9 :30 a.m. College class with Walt Shearer
10 :45 a.m. Morning Worship—"A People Prepared for the Lord"
7 :00 p.m. Evening Service—"Dreaming Big Dreams"
8 :15 p.m. College Fellowship
Bus Leaves Bodien at 9:15 a.m.
Robert Frykholm, Pastor Paul Evan, Assistant
Malmsten Experiences
Missionary Life, Work
by Sharon Pegors
Civil wars are fortunately rather
unusual occurences, but Bud Malm-sten,
a seminary middleman, very
nearly experienced one. While he
was in Brazil last summer, the
President resigned and the two
factions competing for power
threatened to march against each
other—right through the town in
which he was staying. The argu-ment
was settled peacefully, how-ever,
so Bud lost nothing but sleep.
He started his tour this year on
June 29 when he flew to Brazilia.
capital of Brazil, to visit confer-ence
missionaries Vernon Ander-son,
Karl Lachler, and Glenn Og-ren.
Faced with the problem of
not being able to speak a word
of Portugese, he became a listen-er
rather than a talker and learn-ed
the art of looking interested in
a conversation that was completel.N
foreign to him. When asked a
question, "I don't know" seemed
an appropriate answer. However,
one of his friends once asked him
in Portugese if he was married and
his "I don't know" proved quite
amusing. After a long hard strug-gle
of listening for words fre-quently
used and inquiring about
their meaning, he finally was able
to pick up enough of the language
to know what was being said.
Missionaries are usually imag-ined
inhabiting grass shacks in the
jungle, but the Vernon Andersons
have a pleasant home in a modern
city. However, this doesn't mean
that they don't have problems.
"The hardest thing for a mission-ary
to learn," says Bud, "is not to
plan on anything being done. If a
Brazilian says he'll do something
tomorrow, maybe he'll do it to-morrow
and maybe he'll do it in
two weeks, and then maybe he
won't."
Bud was kept busy doing chem-istry
object lessons and singing
in Portguese at the meetings. He
was one of the main attractions
as the American who could sing
Portugese but couldn't speak it
Bud was introduced to the respect-ed
people of the town, thus mak-ing
possible valuable personal mis-sionary
contacts with the people.
Though ninety percent of the
people are Catholic, an open mis-sion
field exists in the ninety per-cent
of these who are inactive in
the church and dissatisfied with
their faith. While the advances of
the Protestants have not usually
worried the Catholic church be-cause
of interdenominational strug-gles,
the united effort shown in
the recent Word of Life campaign
brought the local priest's ban up-on
the meetings. This, however,
only increased the interest of a
naturally curious people.
Apparently Bud accomplished
much of his purpose to "observe
and absorb the experiences on the
mission field."
PianistSerkin
Solos Nov. 28
"One of the most persistently
admired, beloved and influential
musical figures . . . Serkin plays
with his whole soul . . . a dedi-cated
musician, totally incapable
of courting applause," is the pub-licity
description of Rudolf Ser-kin,
performing at the St. Paul
auditorium on Nov. 28, 8:30 p.m .
Buses will leave for this second
Schubert series concert from the
front of Bodien residence at 8
p.m. Slips for bus reservations
will be put in fine arts students'
boxes one week in advance. Other
students may contact Bob With-row
for bus transportation.
by Gary B. Scull
Yesterday, Monday the 20th of
Nov., was the "day of reckoning"
for the Communist Party of the
United States. This was the day
that had been set for them to ex-press
their option between these
agonizing alternatives:
1) Register with the Justice De-partment
as an agent of the Soviet
Union and, in the process, bare
hitherto secret membership lists
and financial records; 2) or refuse
to register and risk potentially
ruinous fines which could mount
into millions of dollars—plus jail
sentences for known party mem-bers.
The showdown with the U.S.
Communist Party stems from a
recent Supreme Court refusal to
reconsider its ruling of last June
that the party must register un-der
the Internal Security Act as
an action-organization controlled
by the Soviet Union.
The laws that serve as the basis
for all this were enacted in the
years 1950 and 1954, during the
time, it will be remembered, when
the Cold War was turning into a
hot one in Korea. The Internal
Security Act of 1950, popularly
known as the McCarran Act, out-laws
conspiratorial action designed
to establish totalitarian dictator-ship
in the U.S. It also tries to
strip the veil of secrecy from corn-muist
political activity and to im-pose
certain disabilities on Com-munists.
A few of these disabili-ties
imposed by the Subversive Ac-tivities
Control Board which ad-ministers
the act, are as follows:,
"front organizations" must register
annually; "action organizations',
must report the names of all their
members. Such members may not:,
use a passport, hold any non-elec-tive
federal position, serve as an
officer or employee of a labor un-ion,
or work in a defense plant.
The purpose of this act was to
bring communists out into the
open. But even before this act
could be applied, Congress decided
to take more drastic action. In
1954, Congress declared that even
the overt political activities of the
Communist party serve as a front
behind which the party can seduce
individuals into the service of
world communism and work to-ward
the violent overthrow of the
government of the United States,
The act does not make it a
crime to be a communist (although
members of the party may be sub-jected
to the penalties that the In-ternal
Security Act imposes on
members of communist action or-ganizations).
The major effect of
the law has been to deprive the
Communist party of the right to
seek places on the election ballots
for its candidates. For the first
time in our history, a political
party has been outlawed by the
national government, and a group
has been denied the opportunity
to use the traditional instruments
of democracy (to overthrow that
democracy).
What will the Reds do ? No one
is certain. If they can be taken at
their word, they will have refused
to sign up. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn,
U.S. party chairman, vowed resis-tance
before the recent Communist
Party Congress in Moscow. Ben-jamin
J. Davis, party secretary,
pledges, "We would go to jail ra-ther
than reveal the confidence of
members or friends."
In anticipation of this the Jus-tice
Department is planning a
suitable strategy. It is probable
that they will initially move a-gainst
the party itself and later
against the officers and members
individually.
(Major parts of this article
are taken from remarks by Harry
Beecher, staff reporter of The Wall
Street Journal and James Burns
and Jack Peltason Government by
the People.)
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Tuesday, November 21, 1961 the CLARION
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Nov. 28 Opens
Cage Season;
Prospects Dim
by Rick McNamara
"Good at the guards, but small
and inexperienced." These were
Coach Jerry Healy's few words
about prospects for the 1961-62
season. In translation they read,
"Watch out—it looks like a long,
dark year for the basketball team."
A mere six letetrmen return
from last year's team which com-piled
a 10-11 mark. Five of these
lettermen are guards, the only ex-ception
being Captain John Peter-son,
a forward. The likes of Dave
Peterman, Lee Bajuniemi, Dick
Larson, and Denny Wahlstrom give
Bethel a strong array of guards
that can score.
Jan Kolbrek, sole freshman let-terman
last season, was originally
a guard who may be forced into the
forward slot this year because of
his 6'2" height which could add
rebounding strength. Other return-ing
squad members from last year
include Phil Bolinder and Roger
Olson, 6'4" sophomores who will
see plenty of action this season.
Freshman prospects are not
strong. Dan Westerlund, 5'10"
guard from Sioux Falls, has fine
potential, but he must remain a
question mark until he overcomes
inexperience and an injured knee.
Don Moore, tallest man on the
team at 6'7", is still recovering
from a broken wrist and cannot fit
into Healy's plans at this time.
Gene Selander may help at the
center slot.
Captain Peterson, three-year let-terman
from Willmar, should fill
one forward spot very well, but
the other forward is up for grabs.
Bolinder looms as the starting cen-ter
with Selander in reserve. Pet-erson
will more than likely start
at one guard with Bajuniemi and
Westerlund appearing as the chief
competitors for the other guard
post.
The season opens Nov. 28 with
a non-conference clash at La-
Crosse. The non-conference sched-ule
is again tough and includes
such powers as Mankato, Bemidji,
Moorhead, and Superior. Badger-
Gopher conference competition
opens Dec. 14 with Lakeland. The
Royals last year shared confer,
ence honors with Northland on
10-2 records. Lakeland and North-land
are heavily favored this sea-son.
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Guard Lee Bajuenimi receives the ball in the basketball team's pre-season
scrimmage with the Augsburg "B" team, on Nov. 16.
Bethel Harriers Travel
For NAIA Competition
The Royal runners suffered their
first dual meet defeat of the year
Nov. 11 when they bowed to a
strong Mankato squad 17-46. The
meet, run on a four-mile course
at Mankato, saw the first four
finishers break the old course mark
of 21:20. Bryan of Mankato won
in 20:47. Fred Purcell was not run-ning
up to his usual form and fin-ished
fourth in 21:13, which was
still seven seconds below the re-cord,
which was set in 1958. Other
Bethel finishers were Dale Pear-son
(11th), Dale Rogers (13th),
Paul Sloan (14th), Howie Dins-more
(16th), and Bill Carlson
(17th).
Purcell finished sixth in the
Northwest Open meet held re-cently
at Lake Nokomis in Min-neapolis.
The Sarasota, Fla., sopho-more
held an early lead in the race
but a 25 mph wind hampered his
efforts in the backstretch. He still
finished only eight seconds behind
the winner, Rod Lazorik of the
University of Minnesota.
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by Rick McNamara
Since the most recent rendition of this column was received so sym-pathetically,
I had almost decided to rest on my laurels and skip this
issue. Most readers will probably feel that this is what I should have
done after reading this, but I do feel compelled to gaze into the ever-present
crystal ball and see how things look for Jerry Healy's basket-ball
team.
It seems very possible that Coach Healy may have a long face to
match the rest of his physique. Things look bleak. The Royal warriors
this season will field a team that can run, pass, and play defense—that
is if they ever get their hands on the ball except after an opposing
eam's score. Rebounding and scoring are considered to be rather im-portant
items in basketball and it looks as though Bethel will have
neither to any degree.
Coach Healy has a rather unusual philosophy regarding scheduling.
"The tougher the better," he says. This is a good deal if one has the
horses, but my sensitive nature cringes at the thought of this team
playing teams such as Mankato, Bemidji, Moorhead, Superior, and, to
a lesser extent, LaCrosse and River Falls. The conference prospect looks
no brighter when one considers the skyscrapers which Gentleman Bob
Griggas has imported into Lakeland. Oh well—winning isn't the im-portant
thing!
I hate to be so pessimistic—maybe it's because I was forced to
write this during Nik Dag week. It's really not that bad—I see Bethel
winning as many as seven or eight games or maybe more depending
on how the team overcomes such problems as inexperience and lack of
height. Captain John Peterson, Dave Peterman, Jan Kolbrek, and Lee
Bajuniemi are all fine ballplayers. Phil Bolinder is 100% improved over
last season and he may develop into an acceptable center. Help from
the freshmen looks promising in the persons of Dan Westerlund and
perhaps Gene Selander.
Minnesota Baptist Conference
Extension Churches
Welcome Bethel Students
South Grove
Shoreview
Northwest (New Hope)
New Brighton
Cedar Grove
Mahtomedi
MI 4-9622 John H. Bergeson, Director
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Bethel will send an entire squad
to the national NAIA cross-coun-try
meet which will be held in
Omaha, Neb., on Saturday, Nov.
25. Bethel will be the only col-lege
in Minnesota represented by
a full team.
Royals Defeat
Northwestern
In Intramurals
After a long and tedious search
through the athletic dept. the fol,
lowing intramural news has been
gleaned from various and assorted
sources:
1. Bethel won over Northwestern
college 12-0 in an intramural foot-ball
game played Nov. 11. Dave
Buck and Larry Stair scored for
the winners.
2. Intramural basketball compe-tition
begins soon after Thanks-giving.
3. Point standings: Jesters 100,
Barons, Counts, and Seminary 78,
Peasants 56, Knights 45, Squires
34, and Pages and Dukes each have
17.
— Rick McNamara
the CLARION Tuesday, November 21, 1961
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Scrooge (Tuffy Bryant) turns to listen to Bob Crachitt (Al Penner)
during rehearsal for the Dec. 1, 2 Royal Players production of "Scrooge."
Study Grants
Still Availabl
Mr. Eugene Johnson, associate professor of art, is responsible for planning and executing the illumin-ated
backdrop for the Festival of Christmas. Mr. Johnson is assisted by Robert Nelson, art instructor.
Most of the actual construction and painting is done by members of the art classes.
the CLARION
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Players Portray 'Scrooge'
In Pre-Christmas Production
Cohn Convo
On Survival
Set Nov. 29
Victor Cohn, science editor of
the Minneapolis Star and Tribune,
at a Nov. 29 convocation will pre-sent
his concepts of "Survival in
the Nuclear Age."
Mr. Cohn wrote a series of ar-ticles
about the future which ap-peared
in about sixty American
newspapers this year. He is also
the author of a book, "1999 —
Our Hopeful Future" which was
the topic of his discussion when
he was with us on campus last
year.
Serving as president of the Na-tional
Association of Science Writ-ers
is one of Mr. Cohn's many dis-tinctions.
He has won many a-wards
for superior writing in the
field of science.
As a 1941 graduate of the Uni-versity
of Minnesota, Mr. Cahn
served as editor of the Minnesota
Daily in 1940-41.
The spirits of Christmas past,
present, and future aid in fashion-ing
a completely new character
for miserly Scrooge, portrayed by
Tuffy Bryant in the Royal Play-ers
presentation of Charles Dick-ens'
famous Christmas story,
Scrooge, to be presented Dec. 13,
14.
The play is being directed by
Inez Welch, Bethel alumna. Ac-companying
the play will be a pre-sentation
of group and solo read-ings
by the speech choir.
Tickets, $1.00 for adults and 50c
for students and children will go
on sale one to two weeks prior to
the performance which begins at
8 p.m. in the Hamline university
little theater.
Thanksgiving day the dining
hall will be closed for all meals.
Students planning to remain at
the college during the vacation
should register in the student
affairs office for meals which
will be prepared in various
homes, off campus.
The dining hall and dorms
will be open for the remainder
of the holidays.
Convo Features
Speech Winners
Four debate students who have
won awards for their superior de-bating
will participate in the Dec.
12 speech convocation.
Doug Huber and Ellen McNaugh-ten,
first and second place oral
interpretation winners in a debate
contest held Oct. 10 were awarded
the Dr. Martin Ericsson awards.
Winning the Dr. Alford Hansen
awards were Lynne Stapp, first,
and Cal Mortenson, second honor
winners in oratory on Oct. 11.
Muck Speaks
On Beatitudes
"What are the qualities of the
man who is a Christian?" is the
subject of a series of eight cur-rent
chapel talks given by Webster
Muck, dean of students.
Based on the beatitudes of Christ
in the Sermon on the Mount, the
talks will suggest what attitudes
and desires are to be considered
characteristic of those who are re-lated
to God in Christ Jesus. The
aim is not so much to draw a ver-bal
portrait of a normal Christian,
as to show out of what materials
a normal Christian life is built.
The series began with sessions
Nov. 14-16, and will continue Nov.
20-22, concluding after Thanksgiv-ing,
Nov. 27 and 28.
"Christ Eternal" is the theme of
the fifth annual presentation of
the Festival of Christmas.
Bethel to Hear
Sewell Strings
On Dec. 2 at 8:00 p.m. in the
fieldhouse the Fred Sewell string
quartet will provide a concert for
the students of Bethel.
Fred Sewell is the first violinist
and organizer of the quartet. Jane
LaBerge is the second violinist,
Daniel Barach is on the viola, with
Betty Anderson on the cello. The
quartet will be accompanied by
Arthur Freiwald.
The quartet will present a quar-tet
by Beethoven in four move-ments,
a Mozart Quintet and a
Brahm's quartet. Mr. Sewell is a
graduate of Curtis Institute of
Music in Philadelphia.
Application for the Danforth
scholarships must be made by Jan.
15, 1962, according to Eugene
Sprinkel, assistant dean of stu-dents.
For the eleventh year the Dan-forth
Foundation welcomes appli-cants
from the areas of natural
and biological sciences, the social
sciences, the humanities, and all
fields of specialization found in
the undergraduate college
Applications are taken from col-lege
senior students who are pre-paring
themselves for a career of
college teaching and are planning
to enter their first year at gra-duate
school in Sept., 1962. Select-ed
students must have "outstand-ing
academic ability, personality
congenial to the classroom, and
integrity and character, including
serious inquiry within the Chris-tian
tradition."
Recommendation by the faculty
is necessary for the scholarship.
Three productions will be given,
Friday and Saturday, Dec. 8 an4
9, at 8 p.m. and Sunday afternoon,
Dec. 10, at 3 p.m. in the field-house.
Featured in the program will be
the 160-voice festival chorus as
well as the college choir, the male
chorus, the women's choir, the or-chestra,
and the brass ensemble.
For the first time, the choral
groups, in addition to singing, will
be featured in choral speaking.
Sheldon Fardig is the coach for
the narration and voice choir.
The three-part program will
open with an antiphonal choral
effect. "Christ in the Beginning,"
"Christ in Time," and "Christ in
Eternity" compose the three sec-tions
of the program, which be-gins
with the traditional colored
candlelight processional through
the fieldhouse.
In addition to carols from other
countries and selections from "The
Messiah," th eprogram will include
several familiar carols such as
"Silent Night" and "0 Come, 0
Come, Emmanuel."
Now traditional, the illuminated
backdrop will be used. Eugene
Johnson and Robert Nelson of the
art department are in charge of
this background.
Directing the festival chorus or
the separate groups during the
evening will be Julius Whitinger,
chairman of the fine arts depart-ment,
Robert Berglund, Robert
Peterson, and C. Howard Smith.
Cal Mortensen and Francis Whee-ler
will narrate; Roberta Yaxley
and Janet Carroll will accompany
throughout the program.
There is no admission charge
for the Festival of Christmas, but
a free-will offering will be taken.
Bible Study
Groups Form
Theme of the Bible study is
"The Person of Christ," passages
have been selected that deal with
the character and personality of
Christ.
StudentsMayGo
To N.A.E. Meet
"Communism and the American
Heritage" is the issue that will
confront a National Association of
Evangelicals - sponsored Christian
Youth Leader's conference, Dec.
14-15, at the Sherman Hotel in
Chicago.
The conference features leaders
of the N.A.E. as well as Gunnalz
Hoglund of the Baptist General
Conference.
Any Bethel students interested
in attending may contact Steve
Peterson, senate president, for ad-ditional
information of the actual
program and travel plans.
Volume XXXVIII—No. 6 Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Tuesday, November 21, 1961
Supporting cast includes narra-tor,
Evans Curry; Bob Cratchitt,
Al Penner; Fred, Ron Bergman;
Marley, Al Penner; ghost of
Christmas past, Donna Green;
ghost of Christmas present, Lynne
Stapp; ghost of Christmas yet to
come, Donna Green; Mr. Fezziwig,
Lee Hansen; Mrs. Fezziwig, Mary
Johnston; Dick, Dick Frederick-son;
Mrs. Cratchitt, Nancy Wall;
Tiny Tim, Steve Curtis; Boy, Earl
Peterson; Cratchitt children,
Sharon Honeywell, Judy Lindaman.
Last year the Royal Players pre-sented
the "Diary of Anne Frank"
and "Christ in the Concrete City."
Bryant, lead in Scrooge, held a role
in the latter.
Dec. 1 marks the beginning of
Bethel's Bible study groups. A-bout
eighty groups of nine or ten
people will be meeting in speci.
fied places throughout the cam-pus.
Bible study groups were formed
last year for the first time. The
purpose of the groups is threefold:
to stimulate personal Bible study,
to provide an opportunity for in-teraction-
With other students, and
—TO develop and expand a person's
circle of Christian friends. Says Sprinkel
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS
MS /5 /r
Letters to the Editor (con't.)
Editorials:
Barth Views Written Word as
Kennedy Urges Day of
Instrument of God's Revelation
Dear Editor:
As a transfer student I perhaps
speak as one from the outside, al-though
I feel quite at home.
Bethel stands as a Christian
college, a bulwark of "love, joy,
peace, patience, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness, self-con-trol."
(p. 17, college catalog.)
That happened to these principles
in the last CLARION in regard to
each of the editorials on home-coming?
True, criticism is good,
as long as it is true and construc-tive!
It appears to me that each
piece of criticism probably stem-med
from either selfishness or per-sonal
ideas and misconstrued val-ues!
The phrase, "Off with Royal
heads" certainly is a mark of an
"ancient fertility cult." As to the
pomp, circumstance and female
smiles, what better suggestion has
"Weasel" for the finer things of
life ? Perhaps he needs to restudy
fine arts.
As to the Christian viewpoint,
true, a Christian college must basi-cally
be non-conforming, but non-conformity
for the sake of non-conformity
is foolishness! Tradi-tion
mixed with modesty can very
successfully serve to enrich its
surroundings. Or may I ask, are
we also to be ascetic minded? True,
if tradition should replace Christ
this would be wrong, but I am
certain that presently this is quite
absurd!
Congratulations, queen, attend-ants,
you all "reigned quite beau-.
tifully." I highly commend all
those who worked for the home-coming
weekend, a tremendous
job, well done!
Bruce T. Baker
Editor's note : Mr. Baker is
evidently confused on the dif-ference
between editorials and
letters to the editor. He directs
his criticism against letters re-ceived
by the editor. Only one
editorial appeared in the last is-sue
and it made no mention of
royalty.
Dear Editor:
The possibility of our govern-ment
resuming nuclear tests is
creating quite a stir across the
nation and I would like to add my
small voice to the growing cry
of opposition to nuclear testing.
The space of this letter does not
allow me to expand on the reason-ing
behind the views presented,
but I would like to outline them
for the Bethel student body and
trust they will discuss the impli-cations
of nuclear testing.
We have come to the point in
history where we have substituted
total annihilation for war. The
growth of potential nuclear de-struction
leaves no one outside our
discussion. We have said that all
war is morally wrong, yet have
rationalized some wars because
they were "just." Nuclear war is
no different, yet it would be ex-tremely
difficult when envisaging
the effects of nuclear war to call
it "just" in any sense of the term.
Can you imagine "justice" in the
picture of men creeping from their
shelters to live in a primitive bar-baric
state, or, at best, in a mili-tary
dictatorship. Nuclear warfare
is morally wrong.
Then why do we test, unless we
are going to use the weapons ? We
test to deter! We test to regain
our lead! Why ? So that we can
say that we can kill people ten
times better whereas before we
could only kill them nine times as
well?
In a recent article in the Sature-day
Review, Soviet scientists came
to the conclusion that nuclear test-ing
itself was an assault on man-kind.
The known and the unknown
effects of radiation on our bodies
and on future generations would
seem a great moral deterrent to
the resumption of nuclear tests.
We want an effective test ban
with controls and inspection. Will
resuming tests help us to attain
this goal? Nuclear testing does
not imply the delaying of war nor
the solution; in most cases, it
by Clarence B. Bass
No man in the twentieth cen-tury
has made as much impact
upon the theological world as has
Karl Barth. The genius behind neo-orthodoxy,
Barth has written in-cisively
about the problems of
theology, the most prominent of
which is his concept of the Scrip-tures.
His basic premise is that the
Scripture is not iself revelation,
but is a witness to revelation. The
Bible must never be identified with
revelation—to do so makes it a
"paper pope." It is not an infalli-ble
word of God, but a thoroughly
human book which may become
the Word of God when God speaks
through it. With all of its human
imperfections, it nevertheless is
the medium through which God
speaks to men.
The precise meaning of Barth's
"witness to revelation" is diffi-cult
to grasp if one continues to
insist that the very word of the
Scripture is the Word of God's
revelation. The word of the Scrip-ture
is but a record of the way in
probably enhances the chances for
war.
World opinion obviously hates
nuclear testing and the psychologi-cal
tension it brings. Are we go-ing
to let our spiritual and moral
heritage of reason and peace col-lapse
to gain some nebulous ad-vantage
in nuclear fission?
I hope not!
Larry S. Peterson
NOTE . . .
The student senate of the Bethel
college student association in ses-sion
Nov. 13, 1961, adopted the
following:
Resolved: That the United States
should refrain from atmospheric
and subterranian testing until such
a time as the immediate possibility
of nuclear warfare should neces-sitate
such testing.
The reasons for the adoption of
this resolution include:
1) the as yet unknown immed-iate
and future result from radio-active
fallout,
which God has revealed himself
to man. When man reads that re-cord,
and when the Spirit of God
illumines its meaning so that man
meets God in it, that which has
been only a record takes upon it-self
a revelatory nature. Through
it God meets man: man encount-ers
God.
An illustration which Barth uses
clarifies his position. I have, says
Barth, a record of the voice of the
Great Caruso. I play that record
and I listen to the voice of Caruso.
Am I listening to Caruso's voice?
No, I'm not hearing Caruso's voice
—I hear only a mechanical repro-duction
of that voice. However,
even though I do not have the
actual voice of Caruso, I may still
say that I am listening to Caruso's
voice, since this is the only means
I have of hearing what Caruso
really was.
Just so, when I refer to the
Bible as God's revelation, says
Barth, I do not mean that I am
receiving God's actual revelation,
but I have only the mechanical re-cording
of that revelation. To say
2) the balance of world opinion
seems to oppose such nuclear test-ing,
3) the resumption of such test-ing
does not imply the delaying of
any war, nor is it a reasonable
solution to any problems related to
the possibility of such a war.
Other letters to the editor
were received and not printed
for lack of space. These are
posted on the bulletin board out-side
the CLARION office.
Chairman Needed
The student senate is solicit-ing
a 1962 homecoming chair-man,
according to Steve Peter-son,
president. Interest in this
position may be expressed to
any senate member and further
action will be taken in the near
future.
that the Bible is revelation con-fuses
the reproduction element
found in the Bible. I "play the
record" when I read the Bible; I
hear the "voice" of God; but, I
must recognize that it is not the
voice of God, but only that which
can lead me to the voice of God
which I will find behind (beyond)
the words of the Bible.
Returning to his illustration,
Barth asserts that repeated use of
the record means that it has scrat-ches
on it that mars its fidelity.
When I play it, he says, in addi-tion
to the voice of Caruso, I also
hear the surface noises. These may
distract, but they do not nullify the
voice of Caruso. Just so, the Bible
has the "surface noises" of errors,
contradiction and myths, yet
through it I can still hear the
voice of God.
It is clear that Barth's view of
the Scripture differs radically from
that of evangelical theology. Barth
asserts an intangible revelation
which cannot be identified with the
precise meaning of words but is
a hazy, effervesent, undefinable
shadow hiding behind the words
of Scripture. The words of the
Scripture are our only means of
understanding revelation, and when
they are emptied of their meaning
the concept of revelation becomes
meaningless.
Drama Can
Challenge to
Deeper Life
Editor's note : These comments
on drama on a Christian campus
are taken from a paper by Bill
Carlson and are only excerpts.
Drama on a Christian campus
provides, in a stimulating exper-ience,
a wonderful means of ana-lyzing
the actions and problems of
human beings, evaluating the long-ings
of the inner soul, and under-standing
the purposes of the Chris-tian
life.
Plays not only reveal to us the
characteristics of our fellow citi-zens
but cause us to re-evaluate
our life in relationship to them.
A play or drama usually affects
our emotional life. It gives us an
opportunity to get away from the
thoughts of ourselves and causes
us to reflect and react on the
problems, needs, and cares of oth-ers.
It creates in us a desire to re-evaluate
the reason for our exist-ence
both as Christians and as hu-man
beings. Even if the viewer of
the drama does not react favorably
with the idea of the play he at
least has had the opportunity to
re-think his ideas and to challenge
his beliefs. Just as we get emo-tional
about the things of Christ,
so we should also become concern-ed
with our reactions to other peo-ple
and their ideas.
Dramas are important because
they open the Christian's eyes to
the world around and make him
realize that Christianity is not a
cliquish ideal but something that
is needed for the whole world.
Thanks, Giving, Prayer
The Thanksgiving holiday is again upon us, heralded by glittering
Christmas baubles.
During the Thanksgiving observance, we will repeatedly be advised
to display our gratitude for benefits to ourselves—possessions or cir-cumstances
which have accumulated or transpired with little effort on
our part. This is relatively easy.
However, more urgently, we must relate our advantages to the
needs of other people. Gratitude must be expressed in concrete action,
not merely platitudes.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy, in his proclamation of Thanks-giving,
1961, clearly outlined these ideas for the nation as a whole,
but his statements assume an added dimension when viewed with a
confirmed Christian commitment.
BPA.—"It is a good thing to Campaign. To all we can offer the
give thanks unto the Lord." It is sustenance of hope that we shall
right that we should be grateful not fail in our unceasing efforts
for the plenty amidst which we to make this a peaceful and pros-live:
the productivity of our farms, perous world for all mankind.
the output of our factories, the
skill of our artisans, and the in-
I urge all citizens to make this
genuity of our inventors. Thanksgiving not merely a holi-
But in the midst of our thanks- day from their labors, but rather
giving, let us not be unmindful of a day of contemplation. Let us ob-the
plight of those in many parts serve this day with reverence and
of the world to whom hunger is with prayer that will rekindle in
no stranger and the plight of those us the will and show us the way
millions more who live without the not only to preserve our blessings,
blessings of liberty and freedom. but also to extend them to the four
With some we are able to share corners of the earth. Let us by
our material abundance through our example, as well as by our
our Food-for-Peace Program and material aid, assist all peoples of
through our support of the Uni- all nations who are striving to
ted Nations Freedom-from-Hunger achieve a better life in freedom.
Letters to the Editor:
Students Comment .
the CLARION
Tuesday, November 21, 1961
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Malmsten Experiences
Missionary Life, Work
by Sharon Pegors
Civil wars are fortunately rather
unusual occurences, but Bud Malm-sten,
a seminary middleman, very
nearly experienced one. While he
was in Brazil last summer, the
President resigned and the two
factions competing for power
threatened to march against each
other—right through the town in
which he was staying. The argu-ment
was settled peacefully, how-ever,
so Bud lost nothing but sleep.
He started his tour this year on
June 29 when he flew to Brazilia.
capital of Brazil, to visit confer-ence
missionaries Vernon Ander-son,
Karl Lachler, and Glenn Og-ren.
Faced with the problem of
not being able to speak a word
of Portugese, he became a listen-er
rather than a talker and learn-ed
the art of looking interested in
a conversation that was completel.N
foreign to him. When asked a
question, "I don't know" seemed
an appropriate answer. However,
one of his friends once asked him
in Portugese if he was married and
his "I don't know" proved quite
amusing. After a long hard strug-gle
of listening for words fre-quently
used and inquiring about
their meaning, he finally was able
to pick up enough of the language
to know what was being said.
Missionaries are usually imag-ined
inhabiting grass shacks in the
jungle, but the Vernon Andersons
have a pleasant home in a modern
city. However, this doesn't mean
that they don't have problems.
"The hardest thing for a mission-ary
to learn," says Bud, "is not to
plan on anything being done. If a
Brazilian says he'll do something
tomorrow, maybe he'll do it to-morrow
and maybe he'll do it in
two weeks, and then maybe he
won't."
Bud was kept busy doing chem-istry
object lessons and singing
in Portguese at the meetings. He
was one of the main attractions
as the American who could sing
Portugese but couldn't speak it
Bud was introduced to the respect-ed
people of the town, thus mak-ing
possible valuable personal mis-sionary
contacts with the people.
Though ninety percent of the
people are Catholic, an open mis-sion
field exists in the ninety per-cent
of these who are inactive in
the church and dissatisfied with
their faith. While the advances of
the Protestants have not usually
worried the Catholic church be-cause
of interdenominational strug-gles,
the united effort shown in
the recent Word of Life campaign
brought the local priest's ban up-on
the meetings. This, however,
only increased the interest of a
naturally curious people.
Apparently Bud accomplished
much of his purpose to "observe
and absorb the experiences on the
mission field."
PianistSerkin
Solos Nov. 28
"One of the most persistently
admired, beloved and influential
musical figures . . . Serkin plays
with his whole soul . . . a dedi-cated
musician, totally incapable
of courting applause," is the pub-licity
description of Rudolf Ser-kin,
performing at the St. Paul
auditorium on Nov. 28, 8:30 p.m .
Buses will leave for this second
Schubert series concert from the
front of Bodien residence at 8
p.m. Slips for bus reservations
will be put in fine arts students'
boxes one week in advance. Other
students may contact Bob With-row
for bus transportation.
by Gary B. Scull
Yesterday, Monday the 20th of
Nov., was the "day of reckoning"
for the Communist Party of the
United States. This was the day
that had been set for them to ex-press
their option between these
agonizing alternatives:
1) Register with the Justice De-partment
as an agent of the Soviet
Union and, in the process, bare
hitherto secret membership lists
and financial records; 2) or refuse
to register and risk potentially
ruinous fines which could mount
into millions of dollars—plus jail
sentences for known party mem-bers.
The showdown with the U.S.
Communist Party stems from a
recent Supreme Court refusal to
reconsider its ruling of last June
that the party must register un-der
the Internal Security Act as
an action-organization controlled
by the Soviet Union.
The laws that serve as the basis
for all this were enacted in the
years 1950 and 1954, during the
time, it will be remembered, when
the Cold War was turning into a
hot one in Korea. The Internal
Security Act of 1950, popularly
known as the McCarran Act, out-laws
conspiratorial action designed
to establish totalitarian dictator-ship
in the U.S. It also tries to
strip the veil of secrecy from corn-muist
political activity and to im-pose
certain disabilities on Com-munists.
A few of these disabili-ties
imposed by the Subversive Ac-tivities
Control Board which ad-ministers
the act, are as follows:,
"front organizations" must register
annually; "action organizations',
must report the names of all their
members. Such members may not:,
use a passport, hold any non-elec-tive
federal position, serve as an
officer or employee of a labor un-ion,
or work in a defense plant.
The purpose of this act was to
bring communists out into the
open. But even before this act
could be applied, Congress decided
to take more drastic action. In
1954, Congress declared that even
the overt political activities of the
Communist party serve as a front
behind which the party can seduce
individuals into the service of
world communism and work to-ward
the violent overthrow of the
government of the United States,
The act does not make it a
crime to be a communist (although
members of the party may be sub-jected
to the penalties that the In-ternal
Security Act imposes on
members of communist action or-ganizations).
The major effect of
the law has been to deprive the
Communist party of the right to
seek places on the election ballots
for its candidates. For the first
time in our history, a political
party has been outlawed by the
national government, and a group
has been denied the opportunity
to use the traditional instruments
of democracy (to overthrow that
democracy).
What will the Reds do ? No one
is certain. If they can be taken at
their word, they will have refused
to sign up. Elizabeth Gurley Flynn,
U.S. party chairman, vowed resis-tance
before the recent Communist
Party Congress in Moscow. Ben-jamin
J. Davis, party secretary,
pledges, "We would go to jail ra-ther
than reveal the confidence of
members or friends."
In anticipation of this the Jus-tice
Department is planning a
suitable strategy. It is probable
that they will initially move a-gainst
the party itself and later
against the officers and members
individually.
(Major parts of this article
are taken from remarks by Harry
Beecher, staff reporter of The Wall
Street Journal and James Burns
and Jack Peltason Government by
the People.)
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Nov. 28 Opens
Cage Season;
Prospects Dim
by Rick McNamara
"Good at the guards, but small
and inexperienced." These were
Coach Jerry Healy's few words
about prospects for the 1961-62
season. In translation they read,
"Watch out—it looks like a long,
dark year for the basketball team."
A mere six letetrmen return
from last year's team which com-piled
a 10-11 mark. Five of these
lettermen are guards, the only ex-ception
being Captain John Peter-son,
a forward. The likes of Dave
Peterman, Lee Bajuniemi, Dick
Larson, and Denny Wahlstrom give
Bethel a strong array of guards
that can score.
Jan Kolbrek, sole freshman let-terman
last season, was originally
a guard who may be forced into the
forward slot this year because of
his 6'2" height which could add
rebounding strength. Other return-ing
squad members from last year
include Phil Bolinder and Roger
Olson, 6'4" sophomores who will
see plenty of action this season.
Freshman prospects are not
strong. Dan Westerlund, 5'10"
guard from Sioux Falls, has fine
potential, but he must remain a
question mark until he overcomes
inexperience and an injured knee.
Don Moore, tallest man on the
team at 6'7", is still recovering
from a broken wrist and cannot fit
into Healy's plans at this time.
Gene Selander may help at the
center slot.
Captain Peterson, three-year let-terman
from Willmar, should fill
one forward spot very well, but
the other forward is up for grabs.
Bolinder looms as the starting cen-ter
with Selander in reserve. Pet-erson
will more than likely start
at one guard with Bajuniemi and
Westerlund appearing as the chief
competitors for the other guard
post.
The season opens Nov. 28 with
a non-conference clash at La-
Crosse. The non-conference sched-ule
is again tough and includes
such powers as Mankato, Bemidji,
Moorhead, and Superior. Badger-
Gopher conference competition
opens Dec. 14 with Lakeland. The
Royals last year shared confer,
ence honors with Northland on
10-2 records. Lakeland and North-land
are heavily favored this sea-son.
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Guard Lee Bajuenimi receives the ball in the basketball team's pre-season
scrimmage with the Augsburg "B" team, on Nov. 16.
Bethel Harriers Travel
For NAIA Competition
The Royal runners suffered their
first dual meet defeat of the year
Nov. 11 when they bowed to a
strong Mankato squad 17-46. The
meet, run on a four-mile course
at Mankato, saw the first four
finishers break the old course mark
of 21:20. Bryan of Mankato won
in 20:47. Fred Purcell was not run-ning
up to his usual form and fin-ished
fourth in 21:13, which was
still seven seconds below the re-cord,
which was set in 1958. Other
Bethel finishers were Dale Pear-son
(11th), Dale Rogers (13th),
Paul Sloan (14th), Howie Dins-more
(16th), and Bill Carlson
(17th).
Purcell finished sixth in the
Northwest Open meet held re-cently
at Lake Nokomis in Min-neapolis.
The Sarasota, Fla., sopho-more
held an early lead in the race
but a 25 mph wind hampered his
efforts in the backstretch. He still
finished only eight seconds behind
the winner, Rod Lazorik of the
University of Minnesota.
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by Rick McNamara
Since the most recent rendition of this column was received so sym-pathetically,
I had almost decided to rest on my laurels and skip this
issue. Most readers will probably feel that this is what I should have
done after reading this, but I do feel compelled to gaze into the ever-present
crystal ball and see how things look for Jerry Healy's basket-ball
team.
It seems very possible that Coach Healy may have a long face to
match the rest of his physique. Things look bleak. The Royal warriors
this season will field a team that can run, pass, and play defense—that
is if they ever get their hands on the ball except after an opposing
eam's score. Rebounding and scoring are considered to be rather im-portant
items in basketball and it looks as though Bethel will have
neither to any degree.
Coach Healy has a rather unusual philosophy regarding scheduling.
"The tougher the better," he says. This is a good deal if one has the
horses, but my sensitive nature cringes at the thought of this team
playing teams such as Mankato, Bemidji, Moorhead, Superior, and, to
a lesser extent, LaCrosse and River Falls. The conference prospect looks
no brighter when one considers the skyscrapers which Gentleman Bob
Griggas has imported into Lakeland. Oh well—winning isn't the im-portant
thing!
I hate to be so pessimistic—maybe it's because I was forced to
write this during Nik Dag week. It's really not that bad—I see Bethel
winning as many as seven or eight games or maybe more depending
on how the team overcomes such problems as inexperience and lack of
height. Captain John Peterson, Dave Peterman, Jan Kolbrek, and Lee
Bajuniemi are all fine ballplayers. Phil Bolinder is 100% improved over
last season and he may develop into an acceptable center. Help from
the freshmen looks promising in the persons of Dan Westerlund and
perhaps Gene Selander.
Minnesota Baptist Conference
Extension Churches
Welcome Bethel Students
South Grove
Shoreview
Northwest (New Hope)
New Brighton
Cedar Grove
Mahtomedi
MI 4-9622 John H. Bergeson, Director
HU 9-1455
Bethel will send an entire squad
to the national NAIA cross-coun-try
meet which will be held in
Omaha, Neb., on Saturday, Nov.
25. Bethel will be the only col-lege
in Minnesota represented by
a full team.
Royals Defeat
Northwestern
In Intramurals
After a long and tedious search
through the athletic dept. the fol,
lowing intramural news has been
gleaned from various and assorted
sources:
1. Bethel won over Northwestern
college 12-0 in an intramural foot-ball
game played Nov. 11. Dave
Buck and Larry Stair scored for
the winners.
2. Intramural basketball compe-tition
begins soon after Thanks-giving.
3. Point standings: Jesters 100,
Barons, Counts, and Seminary 78,
Peasants 56, Knights 45, Squires
34, and Pages and Dukes each have
17.
— Rick McNamara
the CLARION Tuesday, November 21, 1961
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